So why are we having this discussion?
Because it appears that HE took down non-infringing sites?
Excuse me for stating the obvious. :-)
... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -
On the technical side of this question...
Let's say that a customer is doing virtual hosting. So they have a bunch of sites (Let's say hundreds) on a single IP address. Given that one of the sites is misbehaving (use your own definition), how would a provider block the one site, without blocking others that share the same IP address, without looking at every port 80 request and parsing for the header for the URL?
Is there a better solution that doesn't require intrusive parsing?
Sure. Tell the hoster they've got to shut it down, or else lose their connectivity. Sometimes it can be both simple *and* obvious. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.